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  • A. customer training
  • B. deliverySource Industrial Parts
  • C. ordering ease
  • D. customer consulting

Explanation: Delivery measures how effectively the company gets its products or services to customers.

Correct answer: deliverySource Industrial Parts
  • A. component parts and materials
  • B. installations
  • C. supplies and business servicesSend Money Overseas
  • D. equipment

Explanation: Supplies and business services are short-lived operating inputs that help a business manage or produce its finished products.

Correct answer: supplies and business servicesSend Money Overseas
  • A. optional-feature pricingHire Brand Strategists
  • B. Two-part pricing
  • C. by-product pricing
  • D. product line pricing

Explanation: Optional-feature pricing charges separately for extras that customers may choose, such as upgraded equipment or additional services.

Correct answer: optional-feature pricingHire Brand Strategists
  • A. staples
  • B. impulse goods
  • C. homogeneous goods
  • D. emergency goodsCompare CRM Tools

Explanation: Impulse goods are convenience products bought spontaneously without prior planning or a search effort, often at checkout points.

Correct answer: impulse goods
  • A. mass effectivity
  • B. consumption system
  • C. mass customization
  • D. mass productivitySource Industrial Parts

Explanation: Mass customization combines large-scale production with the ability to adapt products to individual customer requirements.

Correct answer: mass customization
  • A. cotton and jute
  • B. fruits and vegetables
  • C. wheat and livestock
  • D. iron ore and lumberBook Sales Coaching

Explanation: Natural products are raw materials obtained from nature, including minerals, forest resources and agricultural outputs.

Correct answer: iron ore and lumberBook Sales Coaching
  • A. product classification system
  • B. product differentiation system
  • C. customer value system
  • D. consumption system

Explanation: A consumption system describes how users employ a product together with the related services needed to obtain its benefits.

Correct answer: consumption system
  • A. shopping goodsCompare CRM Tools
  • B. specialty goods
  • C. convenience goods
  • D. unsought goods

Explanation: Shopping goods are bought after customers compare alternatives on factors such as price, quality and style or sustainability.

Correct answer: shopping goodsCompare CRM Tools
  • A. durable goods
  • B. services
  • C. non-durable goods
  • D. augmented goods

Explanation: Services are intangible and often perishable and variable, so customers depend heavily on supplier credibility, adaptability and quality…

Correct answer: services
  • A. emergency shopping goodsIndustrial & Product Design
  • B. heterogeneous shopping goods
  • C. impulse shopping goods
  • D. homogeneous shopping goods

Explanation: Homogeneous shopping goods are perceived as similar in quality, so buyers mainly compare their prices.

Correct answer: homogeneous shopping goods
  • A. wheat, cotton, fruits
  • B. iron ore
  • C. fish and lumber
  • D. crude petroleum

Explanation: Farm products are agricultural outputs, such as wheat, cotton and fruits.

Correct answer: wheat, cotton, fruits
  • A. product mix
  • B. product system
  • C. product assortment
  • D. family and line of productMarketing

Explanation: A product system is a group of related items designed to perform compatible tasks together, such as connected equipment or technology.

Correct answer: product system
  • A. component parts and materials
  • B. operating supplies
  • C. maintenance and repair items
  • D. equipment and installations

Explanation: Capital items are long-term business-use assets, especially installations and major equipment used in production.

Correct answer: equipment and installations
  • A. co-branding
  • B. mix branding
  • C. optional branding
  • D. line fill branding

Explanation: Co-branding occurs when two or more established brands collaborate in presenting or marketing a product.

Correct answer: co-branding
  • A. heterogeneous goods
  • B. shampoos and soaps
  • C. legal advisors
  • D. machine tools and refrigerators

Explanation: Non-durable goods are physical products consumed or used up quickly, such as shampoos and soaps.

Correct answer: shampoos and soaps
  • A. width of product mix
  • B. length of product mix
  • C. depth of product mix
  • D. consistency of product mix

Explanation: Depth measures the number of variants, sizes, models or versions offered within each product line.

Correct answer: depth of product mix
  • A. durability
  • B. performance quality
  • C. reliability
  • D. conformance quality

Explanation: Durability measures how long a product is expected to remain useful, including under demanding or stressful operating conditions.

Correct answer: durability
  • A. down-market stretch
  • B. all of the above
  • C. Two-way stretch
  • D. up-market stretch

Explanation: Product line stretching may move downward to reach lower-price buyers, upward to enter premium segments, or in both directions.

Correct answer: all of the above
  • A. expected products
  • B. augmented products
  • C. basic product
  • D. potential productManufacturing

Explanation: At the second level, the marketer turns the core benefit into the basic product, such as converting the need for transport into an actual…

Correct answer: basic product
  • A. emergency items
  • B. repair items
  • C. operating supplies
  • D. equipment

Explanation: Hand tools, desks and personal computers are portable items used in factory or office operations, so they fall under equipment, more…

Correct answer: equipment